Anjali Jakhar, Vikrant Kumar, and Mohd. Nayeem Ali

Department of Agriculture, Shri Ram College, Muzaffarnagar

Received: Oct 15, 2023/ Revised: Oct 31, 2023/Accepted: Nov 12, 2023

(✉) Corresponding Author: anjali31july@gmail.com

Abstract

Uttar Pradesh is the 2nd largest state in India. The economics of Uttar Pradesh is mainly based on agriculture and about 65 % of the total population is dependent on agriculture the main crop of Uttar Pradesh is Wheat. Wheat is the state’s principal food crop and sugarcane is the main commercial crop. It is produced in the largest part of the state in about 24% of agricultural Land. Taking into account the significance of the aforementioned facts to measures the technical efficiency of wheat crop on different size of farms in western region of Uttar Pradesh year 2014-15. The results of investigating technical efficiency of the sample farm households under wheat crops indicated that output produced was less than the potential output to the extent of about 23 percent in wheat respectively. On overall basis, however, much variation observed across farm size groups.

Keywords:  Agriculture, Technical efficiency, Cobb- Douglas Production Function.

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Jakhar, A., Kumar, V. and Ali, M. N. (2023). Technical efficiency of Wheat crop on different size of farms in western region of Uttar Pradesh. Chemical and Environmental Science Archives, Vol. 3(4), 80-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.47587/CESA.2023.3403.

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